From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: 74630@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74630: 31.0.50; emacs-mail-verify
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 09:45:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86frmikdc0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1tOVTY-0001KC-95@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:23:00 -0500)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: 74630@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:23:00 -0500
>
> > > Do some people run this function from a hook for every message and
> > > want to see output only in case of failure?
>
> > See above: it displays a message in case of success as well.
>
> I agree, that should be enough.
> (I didn't know it did that.)
>
> Perhaps document that in the doc string:
>
> On successful verification, displays ""Verifying...done" in echo area.
That sounds redundant, as the message seems to speak for itself?
> Perhaps it should return t if it succeeds in verifying, and nil otherwise.
I thought about it, but the functions it calls don't have their return
value documented, so doing that seems to require a serious surgery of
the code with which I'm not familiar.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-01 5:39 bug#74630: 31.0.50; emacs-mail-verify Richard Stallman
2024-12-01 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-04 6:09 ` Richard Stallman
2024-12-04 13:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-20 5:23 ` Richard Stallman
2024-12-20 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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